Last week, I sat down with Michael Ault – a doyen of the dance-club world with 35 clubs in over 10 cities to his credit - and we talked about his latest party: Pangaea in Singapore.

Pangaea is an ultra luxe lounge that sits beneath the casino complex of Marina Bay Sands (MBS). For three nights a week it hosts the famous, the rich and the obscenely rich for a party till dawn.

Main room featuring a 20,000 glass bulb ceiling by Milk Photographie

At first glance the space seems lush but not mind-blowing. But, the decadence is in the details. Above our heads, sweeping across the ceiling, are 20,000 individual bulbs casting an intimate glow on the Safari-themed exotica that doubles as up furniture. Partygoers rest their drinks on 1000 –year-old saur tree tops or Ralph Lauren tables. They sit on animal skinned sofas - from ostrich to crocodile and they dance on granite podiums that line the 19 tables that dot the room because there is no dance-floor.

This is the private party, perfected.

“Where do the top people party? At house parties - where they have great service, great music and a door they can control so it is safe and the service is fantastic,” explains Ault on the demands of his niche group of clients.

“That’s what we do – we do a high end house party every night.”

He says his 4000 square feet establishment grosses $300,000 weekly for the 3 nights it is opened whereas the top clubs in Las Vegas such as Pure, Tao & Tryst gross approximately $1 million per week and their spaces stretch to around 30,000 square feet.

Invited by MBS to set-up his well-known brand in Singapore it took Ault one trip to the city to decide he needed to be here - because the socialites in their Jimmy Choos and jewellery don’t want to rub up against the kids in their sneakers and jeans, he explains.

“That Ferrari or that Maserati - it is not for everyone and most people can’t afford it anyway but for some people it is exactly what they want – and Pangaea is a Ferrari of the nightclub world.”

Patrons reserve a table which cost from $2000 all the way to $15,000. That last price tag places you in the Dragon Den – that table in the corner – you know the one with the gold python skin, a portrait of a shapely woman hanging on the wall and slightly elevated to set apart the merely rich from the truly rich.

Pangaea (Photo by Milk Photographie)

Ault – who invented bottle service - assures me the service is impeccable.

“If you don’t get your drink in 3 minutes – we will fire the server.”

It has to be. The crowd demands it.

“The concentration of billionaires is staggering. I’ll walk through the room, collecting business cards and you’ll know more than half of them are billionaires,” says Ault.

Of course my immediate calculation was straightforward - why not make the space bigger? Bring in more billionaires?

I am quickly corrected.

“Bigger means you have to let it more filler and really high end exclusive snobby elitist don’t like filler and bigger that just puts me in the category of the big clubs. I don’t want to have any filler.”